Zion de Gallier, and Steve Flynn was released. Production The first song written was the story of Grocer Jack, the local grocer who was taken for granted until he died. Wirtz took an unused backing track from an old recording of his, a song called "Love Will Always Find A Way" and Steve Howe was asked to overdub the guitar. Wirtz had the character of Jack in his imagination but asked Keith West to write the lyrics for it. After West heard the music, he wrote the lyrics straightaway. Soon after, the single was recorded at Abbey Road Studios. The engineer, Geoff Emerick, who was working with the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album at the time, recorded the song in true stereo, a rarity at the time, with all the latest technology that was available. Wirtz and Emerick layered brass and strings onto the track and added a Clavioline motif for the introduction. The song itself featured the "Opera" trademark, the children's chorus, with singers from Corona Stage School. Single releases "Grocer Jack (Excerpt from A Teenage Opera)" was released on 28 July 1967 and was an instant hit. It was played continuously throughout the summer, later known as the Summer of Love and was helped into its number 2 spot by being played on pirate radio stations, particularly Radio London and Radio Caroline. It was also featured on the very first broadcast of Radio 1 on 30 September 1967. It was only kept off the number 1 spot by Engelbert Humperdinck's The Last Waltz and the enormous success of Grocer Jack got the media's attention. Rumours began circulating about the rest of the project; according to one source, the entire project had been completed by September and there was talk of a musical starring Cliff Richard. Another single, "Sam", again featuring West on vocals and Howe on guitar, was released in October. Despite Radio 1 DJ Tony Blackburn helping to promote it and Wirtz creating a special edit for airplay, "Sam" had less publicity than "Grocer Jack", and (with many of the pirate stations having then been shut down) received less airplay. "Sam" reached number 38 in the chart. Following this, West made the decision to leave the project; he found it difficult to work on two very different projects, and believed that it confused fans. Wirtz meanwhile completed "(He's Our Dear Old) Weatherman" (which had